First Line: ‘Imperial Bedrooms’ by Bret Easton Ellis
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Herewith begins a feature I have been planning for some time. Takes a bit of discipline from me as a reader though, to read just the first sentence and then stop. This is the most critical line in the book though, and I regularly write pages of possible first lines trying to figure which is best, will hook the reader, is original and gives enough information to generate a raft of questions. Here’s the first from BEE’s new one:
“They had made a movie about us.”
Pretty good. Who are they? Who are us? Why did they deserve a movie?